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Epiphone Jack Casady Artist Series Signature Bass Left-handed - Metallic Gold

4-string Semi-hollowbody Electric Bass, Left-handed, with Maple Body, Mahogany Neck, Indian Laurel Fretboard, 1 Humbucking Pickup, and VariTone Control - Classic Metallic Gold
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Get Massive Tone from this Semi-acoustic Bass!

The Epiphone Jack Casady Signature Bass lets you explore new sounds and add acoustic dimension to your music. Developed and designed in partnership with Jack Casady, bass player for such groundbreaking bands as Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, this semi-acoustic-electric bass gives you a great mix of clarity, punch, and bite. A hollow cavity gives the Jack Casady Signature Bass a natural woody voice, and a special pickup with a VariTone control lets you dial in a huge range of tones. Get ready to discover tons of great new sounds with your Epiphone Jack Casady Signature Bass!

Semi-hollow maple body provides bright attack and resonant acoustic thump

Here's something we don't see every day at Sweetwater: a semi-acoustic bass. What's more, the Jack Casady Signature Bass features a maple back and sides, whose bright and naturally resonant tone compliments the woody thump of its 34"-scale bass setup. Even without its killer electronics, all you have to do is listen to the acoustic sound of the Epiphone Jack Casady Signature Bass to know this is a very special instrument.

Specially designed pickup captures natural bass tone with extra clarity

To capture the full range of the Jack Casady Signature Bass's acoustic bass sound, Epiphone outfitted it with a specially designed low-impedance, low-output humbucker. Not only does this humbucker capture the Jack Casady Signature Bass's thump and growl beautifully, it also gives your sound the kind of clarity you don't typically get from bass pickups.

VariTone control makes dialing in the perfect bass sound as simple as turning a knob

Epiphone's VariTone circuitry is a truly unique beast, and it's part of what makes the Jack Casady Signature Bass such a fun and distinctive instrument to play. The VariTone control lets you dial in the impedance of its active humbucking pickup from around 50 ohms to around 500 ohms, which seriously affects your sound. As you turn the Jack Casady Signature Bass's VariTone control, you shift its tone from even dynamics and full tone to a punchier response with a narrower sound and plenty of bite. This gives you an absolutely massive sonic palette to play with!

Epiphone Jack Casady Signature Bass Left-handed Semi-hollowbody Electric Bass Guitar Features:

  • An original bass that gives you a wide range of amazing acoustic and electric tones
  • The signature bass of one of rock's most influential bass players
  • Semi-acoustic laminate maple body adds bite and woody quality to your sound
  • Special low-impedance, low-output humbucker captures full-bodied tone with excellent clarity and definition
  • VariTone impedance shifting circuit lets you dial in a broad spectrum of excellent bass sound

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Tech Specs

  • Number of Strings: 4
  • Left-/Right-handed: Left-handed
  • Body Shape: Jack Casady
  • Body Material: Laminated Maple
  • Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
  • Color: Classic Metallic Gold
  • Neck Material: Mahogany
  • Neck Shape: Rounded
  • Neck Joint: Set Neck
  • Radius: 12"
  • Fingerboard Material: Indian Laurel
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Trapezoid
  • Number of Frets: 21
  • Scale Length: 34"
  • Nut Width: 1.625"
  • Nut Material: Synthetic Bone
  • Bridge/Tailpiece: 3-point Adjustable Bridge
  • Tuners: Die-cast with Clover Buttons
  • Middle Pickup: JCB-1 Low-impedance Humbucker
  • Controls: 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone, 3-way pickup knob
  • Strings: .050-.105
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: EBJCLMGCH1

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Rated 5/5

Such a Great Bass!

This has come to be one of my favorite basses. It's lighter than most and just plays and sounds great! With round wound strings, it lively and bouncy. With the tone rolled off, it's warm and woody.
The only thing that was an issue are the stock tuning machines. Sadly mine came to me squeaking with one failing after a short time. Installed aftermarket tuners by Hipshot and the problem was solved. Reduced weight at the headstock as well.
Tuners aside, I would not consider letting this one go anytime soon. Hat's off to Epiphone for offering a Left-handed model!
Music background: Playing for 44 years
Rated 2/5

Knobs don't work

I'll update this review once I decide whether or not I am keeping the bass, but I want to save my fellow lefties from being surprised by this disappointment.

Both the tone and volume knobs on this bass use logarithmic pots, but on the left handed model they have wired them as though they're reverse logarithmic pots. This means they basically function as on/off switches - the full spectrum of discernable change in both tone and volume happen between 0 and 1. Anywhere between 1 and 10, there is no audible difference.

This can be solved by either replacing the pots with reverse log, or by wiring them so that clockwise turns them up, thereby making 0 your max volume. Because the Jack Casady is a hollow body bass, that would require fishing all the electronics out through the f hole, making the change, and fishing them back into place.

I'll update my review later with more depth, but I wanted to put this out there.

I'm disappointed with Epiphone.

Sweetwater is great.
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